US patent moves are 'profoundly bad' in leaked TPP treaty | The Verge
... many have taken the leak as an opportunity to question why the documents
were secret in the first place. While many of the revelations could be
seen as embarrassing to the US or other nations, they're hardly out of
keeping with similar provisions in proposed legislation. At the same
time, keeping the documents secret has fueled doubts about the
legitimacy of the process itself. "Any state signing a binding
international trade agreement without a vote of informed representatives
and an open text is not a democracy," said OpenITP coder Eleanor Saitta
in response to the latest leak. "I don't say that as a rhetorical
position. It's not. It's a statement about the basic definition of
democracy."
Wikileaks Post
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.
The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations
representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks
release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators
summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter
published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the
TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet
services, civil liberties and biological patents. Significantly, the
released text includes the negotiation positions and disagreements
between all 12 prospective member states.
In the words of WikiLeaks’ Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, “If
instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and
free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and
creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance,
sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might
one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
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